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Magic & Manners

It is a truth universally accepted that well-bred members of Society are not beleaguered with magic.

For Elsabeth Dover and her sisters, that truth means living in a perpetual state of caution, never using their sorcerous gifts in public...

Atlantis Fallen

Book 1 of the Heartstrike Chronicles

A city hidden for five thousand years.

A man so ancient his early history is lost to time.

A woman who has nothing to lose...

Urban Shaman

Joanne Walker has three days to learn to use her shamanic powers and save the world from the unleashed Wild Hunt.
No worries. No pressure. Never mind the lack of sleep, the perplexing new talent for healing herself from fatal wounds, or the cryptic, talking coyote who appears in her dreams.
And if all that's not bad enough, in the three years Joanne's been a cop, she's never seen a dead bodyâbut she's just come across her second in three days.
It's been a bitch of a week.
And it isn't over yet.

Stone's Throe

JUSTICE WILL BE DONE!
Some girls languish under the weight of a broken heart, but not Amelia Stone. After a youthful encounter with the villain known as le Monstre aux Yeux Verts, Amelia is left with regrets - and a stalwart determination to right the wrongs of the world.

Bewitching Benedict

Benedict Fairburn does not quite need his ailing great-aunt's fortune, especially since he'll have to marry to get it. His family, however, thinks otherwise - as do many of the eligible ladies in London - and the pressure is mounting. An embarrassment of attentions fill Benny's time, but the young lady he prefers roundly dislikes him...

*October*?

However, in celebration, or something, of it being the final quarter of the year, I decided to start doing Pilates this morning. The goal is to do exercises every other day, so 3-4 times a week. My core muscles are pretty mushy and have been for a very long time, so yeah. Trying to do something about that.

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so #1, the b-line (not an image but a fact) – lie on your back and trace your index finger straight across the hips from hip bone to hip bone several times. engage the muscles along that line. ideally you’re trying to draw the abdominal muscular wall back behind the line of the hip bones – hence the name, b-line – which may or many not be possible for your own body shape.

imagine you’ve got a pair of suspenders between the solar plexus and the pubic bone. cinch them so the rib cage knits together and slides all the way down toward the pubic bone.

imagine you’ve got an arrow shooting back through the belly button, pinning the naval to the spine.

last one – just at the intersection of the b-line and zipper zipping, halfway back in the body, imagine that you have a small, absorbent sponge. it’s absorbing the pelvic floor, lower belly, lower back, side waists, rib cage, everything. in addition, you’re wringing out this sponge, from all directions, each time you exhale.
that’s it baby!